Chemical Dependency
Subtitle: Women at Risk
Contributors: Brenda L. Underhill (Editor); Dana G., Ph.D. Finnegan (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781560230885
Subjects: Coping with personal problems; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; Patients; Drug use; United States; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Sports; Sociology - General; Reference; General; Drug abuse; Substance abuse; Women; Counseling of
First sentence: Before the emergence of the women's movement, female alcohol and drug dependency was generally regarded as an uncommon manifestation of a basically masculine disease; as a result, it was often overlooked, underreported, underdiagnosed, and undertreated (Bell Unger, 1988).